The current cut has been dropped from 29 to 28, but even with that change, P&B only just got a qualifying score (of course, they already had one from Worlds last year). B&S also qualified. The other 5 teams failed to make the qualifying score.

If you look at the average and standard deviations of the TES scores at the events, CoC is significantly lower, even when you take out the Chinese skaters, who are significantly weaker than any of the teams at either SC or SA.

TES

SC

SA

CoC

w/o Chinese

35.34

37.43

31.15

31.15

35.91

36.50

28.77

28.77

32.50

30.30

26.36

26.36

31.17

30.79

26.20

26.20

26.58

26.43

24.00

24.00

27.66

28.85

20.28

26.17

26.36

19.78

25.92

25.85

Average

30.16

30.31

25.22

27.30

Std Dev

4.13

4.50

4.19

Are you a statistician? Thank you so much. The most impressive part is that I actually understood the stats because of the clarity, and I am utterly hopeless with math. The judges in CoC were in a bad mood from not liking the hotel/food or something. I wonder if A&P would qualify